November 11, 2013
Hello Family!
Happy Vetran's Day. Happy last flag
day of the year. So, I'm totally all for
Vetran's Day but I don't like it too much when the post office is closed and I
can't send birthday presents home.
Bummer! Well, I will eventually
get them to you. Today we went to
Target. Again. I love Target but it is pretty far out of our
area. We shopped for a while and then we
got out of there.
We had let the Spanish elders into the church before we had gone to
Target. They have made another rule that
you can't go out of your area without permission. Technically their area is like
everywhere. When we got back I got
chastized by Elder Ontivarous for letting them in but Elder Bridge was on my
side.
Sister Holgado signed up for dinner again.
Brother Holgado loves having us there.
He is trying to get Sister Holgado
to have us for Thanksgiving even though we already have dinner. They are funny.
Then we went and got my package!
Thank you! The Frankenberry
cereal made me giggle. I love that
stuff. How did you know I wanted my
other USU sweatshirt? Smart Momma! I love the fancy coat. It is so warm. Ah! It
was all perfect.
We talked with Brother and Sister Watkins for a while. Sister Watkins is sad because her brother's
foot has gotten super infected and they will probably have to amputate it.
I shared a thought before we left (we always do but I like this
thought). It's Alma 36:22, at the very
end of the verse Alma says "...my
soul did long to be there." I wrote
'home' next to that. My first thought
was home with all of you but as I thought more and read the verse again, I
thought about heaven home. How much of
our natural man is blocking our soul's longing to be home? I think sometimes, that slips and we get a
glimpse of how close our souls are to heaven. President Ezra Taft Benson said, "Nothing
is going to surprise us more when we pass through the veil to the other side
than to realize how well we know our Father and how familiar His face is to
us." So, there you go, a thought
for the day.
November 12, 2013
I was right. We got chastized
today. I didn't know this but the
writing on cars is an act of flirtation.
We had a whole thing on it. I
guess telling the Elders you like their tie is flirting too. From what they were saying, basically all forms
of communication with the Elders can be flirting. I think they are going a little overboard on
the whole thing. I know we need to be
careful but I think they are stretching it a bit.
On a better note, I saw Sister Hooker.
I can never say enough how much I love her. She is happier but she is also having a hard
time training. We didn't think it was
going to be as hard as we both find it to be.
It is for sure a learning experience.
I also got to see Elder Harmon. I
really didn't get to talk to him though.
It probably would have counted as flirting if we had talked.
All the sisters in our zone.
After our meeting we went over to Marni's.
I love going over there and talking to her and helping her. We had dinner at the Brintons. They are a cute little family. It is fun because Sister Brinton is 22 and
it's nice to have a friend. We were at
the table and Sister Knight stood up to go do something and I saw that her
zipper had split. I excused myself,
walked over to her and let her know. She
had to sit through dinner with it.
After
dinner we drove over to the church and she switched into her jeans that we had
in the car from Marni's. We had about an
hour left before we needed to go home.
By the time that we would go home and change there would not be time to
do anything. So we went and washed the
car because they may switch it out tomorrow because of the car mirror. I did not feel productive tonight, dang
it! I hate that feeling. We had no control over the zipper though.
November 13, 2013
Today was a super fabulous day!
Usually Wednesday is kinda hard to get through but today was
awesome. It was the follow-up meeting,
and because Sister Hooker is training they came to us and we drove together for
the rest of the way. How
delightful! I know I say it all the
time, but I just love her. She always
brightens my day.
We got to the meeting and Sister Paepaetaata sat next to us. She is so sweet. She goes home this February. She told me again how much she would love to
be my companion. I would love to be
her’s as well. It would only give us a
transfer together though… And I got to
see Sister Carrigan. I love her and miss
her. She misses me too. She says that she feels like Lilburn is the
AP’s area and they are just there. I
hope it gets better for her. I can’t
wait to show y’all the book she made for me.
It’s really cute. She put a lot
of work into it.
Sydney. I got your letter
today. Heavens baby cakes! Talk about making me cry. Your talk on the Holy Ghost was so good. I’m so proud of you.
I got a letter from Liz (a friend from work at Macey’s). She’s pregnant. I am so happy for her. She is going to be a great mom. She sent me a baby name bracket…Funny girl!
When we were getting ready to leave we were all saying good-bye and about
five people all yelled “Bye Sister George!”
Sister Hooker looked at me and said, “How do you know everyone?!? I just shrugged my shoulders and said, “I
dunno.” We drove home and I had to say goodbye to Sister Hooker. But I get to see her soon because next Monday
they are coming down here and we will get to see each other again.
We went tracting a little before dinner.
It was dark and not the funnest.
Dinner was at the Ketchums. They
had a lady from Brother Ketchum’s work over.
She is super sweet. Her story is
really sad! Her dad died, then a few
months later, she and her fiance got into a motorcycle crash and she watched
him die. She almost died too. Then exactly a year later, her mom died. The gospel could help her so much. I hope she will let it help her! She was a very happy person. She said that you choose whether you are
happy or not. How true! I hope that as we call her and text her that
she will respond and want to know more.
November 14, 2013
Richard broke my heart today. He
knows that he is supposed to get baptized into this church but he can’t because
of his wife. She won’t let him. He just looked at me the whole time. He knows that I know that. He also knows how much it is killing me that
his wife is stopping him from being baptized.
He just kept telling me, “I’m okay.”
At the end of our meeting, we were shaking his hand. He took mine but instead of shaking he pulled
me in and gave me a hug. I was crying as
soon as I was out of the door. I
couldn’t help it. I love this man that
Sister Carrigan and I found. I want so
badly for him to receive the blessings that come as a member. Sister Galt hugged me and let me cry for a
minute. Shen she took a picture and sent
it to you. That is always fun.
Sister George and Sister Knight
We went over to Marni’s next. She is
sweet. I actually had a cool discussion
with her. She asked what we were doing
for the rest of the day so I told her that we had a few investigators and we
were asking one of them to be baptized. She was excited for us. Then we started talking a little about
baptism. She likes that we don’t do it
as babies. I talked about why and what
it means. Slowly but surely she is
getting there.
We met up with Kiaundra
at Sister Willey’s. We read Alma 15 with
her and talked about Amulek and how he gave up everything for the church. When I asked her if she would be baptized, it
threw her off. Even though the whole
chapter talks about being baptized, and she knew that this was coming, I just
think it was a surprise that I asked.
She said that she would pray about it.
She is sincere and will get her answer.
It’s just a matter of when.
After Kiaundra we went over to the Adams for dinner and to teach Ben and
Casey. Sister Adam’s son, Ben, just got
home from his mission, so Sister Adams is partial to the elders. This is the first time
I have ever gotten to go over there.
Sister Adams is really nice and so is Brother Adams. Ben is nice and we talk to him all of the
time.
The lesson with Ben (not Sister Adam’s son Ben) and Casey went really
well. Ben is ready right now to be
baptized but he is waiting for Casey. She is still a little shakey. She
will get there though. I think at the
beginning of next year. Hopefully I will
still be here.
November 15, 2013
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY!!! I wish I was
home so I could give you a big hug and kiss!
I hope that your day is fabulous.
Today Sister Knight took charge of weekly planning. We may have to go back and redo a few things
but she did pretty good. And to be honest we frequently have to redo a little here or there. After weekly
planning we went tracting. It rained all
day and so that’s what we tracted in.
Mom, I would not have like Holland too much, but maybe more than Sister Knight.
We met Brittany Miller (our investigator, her husband is Michael) at
Chick-Fil-A, just her and us. It was
nice to just be able to talk with her and answer her questions. I like Michael and his questions, but it was
nice to get to know Brittany one on one.
I’ll give it to Sister Knight, she was asking Brittany great questions
about herself.
Dinner was with the Hunsakers tonight.
They are awesome. Sister Hunsaker
is so cute and happy. Their kids are a
hoot. I felt like I was right at home
with them running around, yelling, and wrestling with each other. We had crepes for dessert. Yummy.
No huckleberries though. You
don’t know what you are missing if you have never had huckleberry crepes.
We had about an hour left of our day.
We called a few people to see if we could visit but they all either said
no or didn’t answer. We still had a
bunch of 12 week that needed to get done so we went home and did that. Not too much of an exciting day, ah well.
November 16, 2013
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LACEY!!! I’m glad you
liked your presents. I thought you
might. How was your day? Fabulous I hope!
We did a lot of service today. President Galt asked us to come and help
their neighborhood. The elders cleared
out a bunch of trees while we helped decorate the subdivision with Christmas
decorations. We were there for a very
long time. They fed us lunch and we had
a blast. I’m sad that I missed
decorating the tree with y’all this year. I missed it last year too. Dumb
school.
We went tracting after. Oh boy. We had one guy who answered the door and I
said we had a message of the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. He stopped me and said, “What was wrong with
the old one?” I didn’t understand so I
asked “Sorry, what?” He said, “What was
wrong with the old one? Why is it
restored?” I started to say nothing was
wrong with it, that is why it is restored to what it was. As I was explaining he just shut the
door. He didn’t slam it or anything,
just shut it. OK dude, whatever. Don’t ask a question if you don’t want an
answer.
We had another lady open the door, look at us and yell, “Oh no! You get out
of here! Go away with all of your
crazies!” OK. We will.
Sadly she will be stuck with her crazies.
We met a sweet older lady named Anne.
She talked to us for a good 15-20 minutes. She was just so cute and lonely. Not interested, but sweet. We were in the neighborhood of a couple in
our ward, the Spencers. They were
outside and invited us in. Sister
Spencer spent a good 45 minutes trying to marry me off to her son. Brother Spencer tried too. They said they will introduce us when he
comes home for Christmas. Oh, they were
funny!
We met with Michael and Brittany at 7.
Brother Wernli came with us. I
think Brother Wernli has been able to hit something in Michael that no one else
has been able to. I sure hope so! I could listen to Brother Wernli talk about
the gospel all day long! He knows so
much. I wish I did. He just got called to be a seminary
teacher. What I would give to be in that
class! The lesson went super well! Hopefully that will continue.
November 17, 2013
Oh boy! What a day. I didn’t even attend most of sacrament meeting
today. It was crazy. Ok, back up, so Kiaundra came to church and
so did Ben and Casey. We sat by them and
Kiaundra sat by the Paxtons. Then Yvonne
(a sweet lady who got help from the church and sometimes comes) came. I was glad to see her! After sacrament meeting Sister Galt catches
my eye and motions to me. Sister Knight
stayed with Ben and Casey and I went with Sister Galt. There was a black lady in the back with her 2
kids crying. She had come on Tuesday and
President Galt told her to come back today and we would help her. It was good that Yvonne came. Theresa was the lady’s name. She was so embarrassed that she had to come
and get help and Yvonne kept telling her that it would all be fine.
Theresa’s kids were angry at her, mostly her 15 year old son. Sister Galt had me go out into the hall with
them. That is why I missed all of
sacrament meeting. I just talked to them
and got to know them. Jamal (the son)
slowly opened up to me. Morgan (the
daughter) took a little less time to open up.
They went to all three meetings, that was awesome. Theresa says she would like to start taking
the lessons and that they would be back next week! I hope so!
After church we went tracting. We
finally ran into the basher Sister Knight was waiting for. I don’t think that we did that well. Of course, let's be honest, it NEVER goes well when it is like that.
We had dinner with the Moores. Their
house is so cute! Sister Moore is super
creative and fancy. We had a fun time. After that we went to the Liefson’s. They are one of the families in our ward who
have their parents, brothers and sisters in the ward too. There are a few of those. It was just a fun way to end the night and a
great way to end a crazy but awesome day.
I love you family! I hope all is
well.
Love, Molly
P.S. I would like some more maxi
skirts. If you see any good ones I would
like them…
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